[mythtv-users] Mythweb, switching between lineups
James Crow
crow.jamesm at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 18:28:30 UTC 2010
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 09/08/2010 10:15 AM, bhaskins wrote:
>>
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, and it sounds like you need 2 MythTV video sources--one for your
>>> digital capture card, and one for your analog encoder cards. You only need
>>> one Schedules Direct account. You may need one or 2 different Schedules
>>> Direct lineups--depending on whether the channels included in the 2 video
>>> sources are from the same provider or not (i.e. all the digital cable
>>> package or all OTA or ...).
>>
>> Sorry to even ask about this,
>
> That's what we're here for. :)
>
>> this answer must exist online somewhere but I just can't find it.
>> I have/want/need four different Schedules Direct lineups, ( 4 sources ).
>> Some channels exist on one lineup/source, some on another, some on all,
>> etc.
>
> Note that you would only need 4 lineups if you have 4 different providers of
> video. For example, if you had OTA digital, analog cable, and digital
> cable, that would be 3 providers.
>
> If, instead, you have 1 provider--digital cable--you only need one lineup,
> regardless of whether all the channels in that lineup are available via
> every input. So, say you were using digital cable directly with a QAM tuner
> on one input, firewire output from an STB on another input, and--so you can
> get even the channels that the STB won't output via firewire--analog output
> from an STB to another input. That would require exactly one Schedules
> Direct lineup.
>
> However, it would require 3 different MythTV video sources. The lineup
> becomes the superset of channels available across all inputs, and each
> MythTV video source specifies which of those channels can be used with a
> particular input.
>
> See http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/440637#440637
>
>> Is there a way to switch between lineups under mythweb?
>> Or is there another, better way to do this.
>> I do almost all of my program selection, setup under mythweb which
>> (IMHO) is one of the greatest features in mythtv.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by switching lineups in MythWeb.
>
> MythWeb (and mythfrontend) will show all the available channels, regardless
> of lineup/video source/input, when showing the EPG. The one qualifier is
> that users can choose to tell the EPG to "coalesce" 2 channels into one.
>
> If 2 channels have identical content, you can assign the same callsign to
> those channels to tell the MythTV scheduler to treat the 2 channels as the
> same (so that either channel can be used for "this channel" rules).
>
> If 2 channels have the same callsign (because they have identical content),
> you can tell the EPG to display the channel only once by assigning the same
> channel number to both channels.
>
> Both callsign and channel number are user-editable data that can be changed
> in the channel editor (ideally through mythtv-setup, as there may be issues
> with the frontend and MythWeb channel editors right now).
>
> Mike
>
This is very helpful information for me. I just added my HD-PVR and am
using a single SD lineup with my ClearQAM and HD-PVR. I have
recordings that are being recorded on both a ClearQAM input and my
HD-PVR. Tonight I will play with the call signs and see if I can get
the scheduler to record only a single instance of a show instead of
both.
Thanks,
James
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